One man's meat is another man's fright! So goes a popular saying.

While a lot of people in our clime feel so disgusted at the mention of a cockroach, scientists are trying everything possible to decipher the medical use of the organisms.

Scientists are going the extra mile to breed them while they take a close look at cockroaches to explore their potential in medical treatment.

A current research led by Li Sheng, director of the Institute of Insect Science and Technology at South China Normal University in Guangzhou City focuses on the genetic code of the American cockroach.

According to Li, a cockroach has as many as 522 taste receptors, 329 of which have evolved into bitter receptors that respond to poisonous foods.

Li said: “They eat almost everything. They can do self-detoxification if they eat the wrong food.

“Even if it is beheaded, its body can still move for five or six days. If you cut its legs or antennae off, they will recover in just a few days and look almost the same as before.

He suggested that the factor in the body of cockroaches that helps them heal wounds and regenerate tissue might also be effective in repairing wounds to the human body.

The team’s research paper, “The genomic and functional landscapes of developmental plasticity in the American cockroach,” was published online in Nature Communications on March 21.

According to Li, cockroaches are an ingredient in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Extracts of active ingredients from cockroaches have also been used in modern Chinese clinics for more than 30 years, mainly to treat diseases such as gastric and oral ulcers.

Li said his team’s research suggests possibilities for wider medical use of the American cockroach.

He said: “The extracts could even be used to make beauty masks and treat hair loss in the future.”

Meanwhile, there are cockroaches that are farmed in a healthy environment and they do not frequent the sewers like the ones we come across every day here.

A study conducted by the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science discovered powerful antibiotic properties in the brains of cockroaches, which would help treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections.

According to the study, the tissues of the brain and nervous system of the cockroach can kill more than 90% of MRSA and pathogenic Escherichia coli, without harming human cells.

Liu Yusheng, a professor at the Shandong Agricultural university and the head of Shandong province’s Insect Association, said that the cockroaches are a miracle drug.

“They can cure a number of ailments and they work much faster than other medicine,” Yusheng said.

Not only are the cockroaches consumed, but a cream made from powdered cockroaches is used in some hospitals in China and Korea to treat burns and other facial injuries, he said.

In China, people eat their cockroaches toasted, fried, sautéed, or boiled.

So fried or boiled? How do you prefer your cockroach?

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God 4bid

pukes on thread... ayamaa

Even at that how do you eat cockroaches without killing them first

Eating a cockroach is literally eating your own sh*t.

Hmmmm

They Should Help Us Reproduce In Laboratories Whatever Chemical Elements Are Found Relevant To Our Health & Well beings In Cockroaches

At This Point, Eating Cockroaches Is A No No For Me.

Thanks

Only Asians would sponsor a research as disgusting as that.



*spits on thread, wipes it off with a blue handkerchief and walks away, vowing to avoid OP and his threads for life*